Scentura Creations Danger in the Classified ads Job seekers beware!!
Danger in the Wanted Ad's
Before you start job-hunting, read this;
They come in all different areas and categories. They all have different store names. Different stories. But the outcome is always the same. They are scams, and if you do not educate yourself, you too can fall victim.
There are many out there, buts let's take one example. They are called Scentura Creations. You can compare them to Emodels or Primerica. But their treatment of employees is worse. The following is a true life story of one girls disillusioning encounter:
I was 17 years old, and it was just another day scouring the classifieds. I had been at it for a week with no luck so far. That's when I spotted it:
Attention: We need 15 people now!
No experience needed. We will train you for a
Management position. Up to 750.00 a week
during training.
Wow! Perfect. I picked up the phone and called.
California Designs answered the receptionist.
I told her why I was calling, and she scheduled me for an interview the next day. I showed up, and there was a room full of people there also. The Office Manager, Mark, came in and introduced himself. He talked about how he was looking for bright, motivated, go-getters who would be trained to open their own perfume store. After the presentation, he let us go and kept me and 2 other girls behind. I kept you here, because you are the cream of the crop he said.
We were hired then and there (along with everyone else we found out) and told that our first assignment would be to see if we could sell any bottles to our friends and family that night. I should back up and describe the office. It was a bare makeshift office with no real Lived in look Maybe one or 2 pictures, sporadic furniture, you get the picture.
The next day training started. As it was explained, we were to go out for the day (in our own cars, with our own gas money) and try to sell perfume. Anywhere we could. If there was a No Soliciting sign, we were to ignore it and go in anyways. For every bottle we sold, me made approx. 4-7$ from it. Here is the catch; even when we sold a bottle, we never got to see the money, it was put in a special account for us.
They also taught us little songs that were supposed to pump us up. Motivated, motivated, absolutely motivated, if you're not motivated, get the f**k out! they would chant. For those who actually sold some perfume, they were taken out on a satellite which they made seem like a big deal.
What's a satellite? Basically it is you, your manager, and a group of others. They take you to a far city, cram all of you into one motel room, and make you sell perfume in that city all night.
I could go onbut who needs to? You get the point. I left after a week, I never saw a dime of my money. I left because my parents made me. When I told my boss I quit, he told me my parents were being inconsiderate and ruining my future
As you can see, this company needs to be stopped. Yet, they thrive. Finding fresh, nave victims every week.
What can you do??
2 things. First of all, educate yourself. Become familiar with what the ads read like. They all have the same basic format. They are looking for multiple people, they promise quite a bit of money for no experience. Basically the ad reads like a dream job. If you are curious about an ad, call the number, Ask straight up if they are Scentura Creations. (they go under tons of different names) If they are not, ask whom the are exactly, and research it.
Secondly, let me know you are willing to fight. I am in the process of gathering what I can to take to the FTC. We need to unite to stop this madness.
By the way, the corporate office is in Atlanta, but the are international, and all over the USA.
~April Franco
Riverside, California
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5 Updates & Rebuttals
Chris
Woodstock,Georgia,
U.S.A.
Scam From The motherbase in atl
#6UPDATE Employee
Mon, July 26, 2004
I too was scammed and am willing to fight with anyone who wants to go to the fcc. keep posting and help people to aviod this madness
Mayalin
Perris,California,
U.S.A.
scentura creations - World Perfume
#6UPDATE EX-employee responds
Fri, July 23, 2004
My fiance and i were scammed by scentora creations. It almost ruined our seven year relationship. It was the most awful experince of our lifes. They told him that the problems in our relationship (i.e. he was "working" until sometimes two or three in the morning, these "satillites" where the manager ray and cantrell located in moreno valley ca. would take his cell phone away for extended amounts of time where i could not contact him for over twenty four hours, they promiced him huge amounts of money and he only got sometimes five dollars that would have to go towards gas, etc.)were normal and the partner and family members would think that the person was using drugs, that the person should drop the relationship and their family members who did not support every move in their life that included Scentora Creations. They hipe the experince up with stupid catch phrases. My fiance almost got arrested for solisiting in front of target once because he ignored the warning.
NEVER EVER WORK FOR SCENTURA CREATIONS!!! IT MAY RUIN YOUR LIFE AND FAMILY BE AWARE OF WHAT YOU ARE GETTING INTO LISTEN TO YOUR FAMILY IF THEY TELL YOU IF THEY SEE YOUR LIFE CHANGING
IF IT'S TOO GOOD TO BELIEVE MOST LIKELY IT IS TOO GOOD.
Some One
Riverside,Colorado,
U.S.A.
ITS TRUE BEWARE OF THE BIG Z'S AND OREOS
#6UPDATE Employee
Thu, July 22, 2004
I had worked for the company for almost a month working my @ss of eating up all the b.s. they were feeding me until i realized what was going on. let me break it down like this any one who "owned" an office was like a "PIMP" and whoever had a backpack was a "h*o" we were sent on missions to go out and sell bottles of perfume for a flat price of $30.00
heres the funny part out of the $30.00, $20.00 goes to the company from every bottle we sell and anything after that goes to you but if you were what they called an "F.N.P." (thats what you are called for your first week being led on to belive it means Famously New Person but later on finding out that it means Fuc*in new Pus*y or if you were good at selling Fuc*in New Person) not only do they screw you out of you money they also screw you out of gas money and they expect you not to eat or even go to the bathroom before selling 5 bottles of this stuff let me stop right here cuz i will go on all day.
Here let me help you out, Watch out for the names chris westphal Riverside CA
doug "big-z" zerble San Diago CA
ray and cantrell Moreno Valley CA
and if you live in riverside watch out for these tow numbers:
909-321-0000 Riverside
909-924-9200 Moreno Valley
trust me if anyone even if you work for this company right now and are reading this ask your self this do you want to be a "h*o" with a back pack not me
Jd
Salt Lake City,Utah,
U.S.A.
350 pages of evidence against Scentura and World Perfume
#6UPDATE EX-employee responds
Wed, July 23, 2003
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You can easily shut down your local world perfume or scentura distributor:
http://dcregistry.com/forums/employment/messages/8037.html
*****
I have over 370 pages of info on Scentura and World Perfume. I collect the info to
warn others of this horrible scam:
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161 pages of testimonies from people like you who have been ripped off and cheated by world perfume or scentura:
http://www.dcregistry.com/forums/employment/messages/8356.html
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81 pages on world perfume and scentura, 17 news articles, 1 court order:
http://www.dcregistry.com/forums/employment/messages/8233.html
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"Losers never quit": a heart wrenching story from someone who stayed with Scentura for 5 months--EVERYTHING that Scentura does in this story is exactly the same as World Perfume tactics
http://dcregistry.com//forums/employment/messages/8692.html
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100+ pages is an adobe acrobat file that a former distributor sent me describing the
unethical, behind the scenes pracites of Scentura (available from me by request)
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Hope this answers your questions.
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You can easily shut down your local world perfume or scentura distributor:
http://dcregistry.com/forums/employment/messages/8037.html
*****
Unknown
ANytown,New York,
U.S.A.
Their new location
#6Consumer Comment
Mon, May 12, 2003
Now they are in Buffalo at 553 SmMith Street, if you want to find them.